Goodreads asked Bill Aitken:

What’s the best thing about being a writer?

Bill Aitken Playing around in a world that's far away with characters that you begin to recognise as though you had actually met them. For those of you who have read Blackest, you will remember the scene where Henry Farmer first enters the book, stumbling in through the door trying to get out of his lab coat. When I was writing that screen, he came in exactly like that, fully formed, as though I was watching it on a movie.

I love that.

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